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For our Book-Club Project this upcoming week, You will have the opportunity to design and create comic strips. You will use an online tool to create a six-panel comic highlighting six key scenes in the book that you are currently reading for AR. You will use critical thinking skills to distill the significant points in your book in a few short scenes. Here are the tools for this week’s Book-Club project:

We love books! We love reading! But, we don’t get enough time to sit around with friends and talk about the books we read and love, right? Well, book clubs aren’t just for Oprah anymore! We are thrilled to announce that book clubs are returning to Ms. Rankin’s reading period…starting this week!!

Here are just a few documents to help you get ready for our upcoming BOOK CLUBS!

We love books! We love reading! And, we love learning new facts, ideas, and perspectives. For the next two weeks, we are going to focus on nonfiction books. (What’s the difference between fiction and nonfiction? Click here!)

We begin our nonfiction unit with three books that correlate to what we’re learning right now in social studies: Crossing the Nation by Rail, Rails Across America, and The Transcontinental Railroad. Check out our Nonfiction Book Club Groups here.

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

For our Book-Club Project this week, students will create comic strips. They will use an online tool to create a six-panel comic highlighting six key scenes in the book they are currently reading for AR. They will use critical thinking skills to distill the significant points in their books in a few short scenes. Here are the tools for this week’s Book-Club project:

This week in our Book Clubs, you will write a resume for one of the characters in your book. Be thoughtful about which book you choose this week. You may certainly select a fiction book and write a resume for your fictional character. Historical fiction is a great genre for this project. However, you may also consider a nonfiction book. A biography is a nice genre to pick for this project, as well.

We love books! We love reading! But, we don’t get enough time to sit around with friends and talk about the books we read and love, right? Well, book clubs aren’t just for Oprah anymore! We are thrilled to announce that book clubs are coming to Ms. Rankin’s reading class…starting this week!!

Here are just a few documents to help you get ready for our upcoming BOOK CLUBS!